Capitalist Quote by Rudolf Hiferding

“Economics may not fundamentally be about value creation in real business. At its best it may be an idealized and abstract view of markets…

— Freeman et al

People say values are expensive, but I say they create economic value.

— Ajay Piramal

It is obvious, moreover, that the formation of price in capitalist society must differ from the formation of price in social conditions based upon…

— Rudolf Hiferding

“Value is based on perception, availability, necessity and desire.”

— Steven Redhead

Value is the life-giving power of anything; cost, the quantity of labour required to produce it; its price, the quantity of labourwhich its possessor…

— John Ruskin

Basically, we try to buy value expressed in the differential between its price and what we think its worth.

— Walter Schloss

In a capitalist system, things are valued by what people will pay for them.

— John Currin

In a rising market, everyone makes money and a value philosophy is unnecessary. But because there is no certain way to predict what the…

— Seth Klarman

Value is coextensive with reality.

— Alfred North Whitehead

The question is really how do we think seriously about this mechanism called a market. It ought to be determining not values but prices.

— Cornel West

Capitalism is a system for determining objective value.

— Matt Taibbi

Value manifests itself as exchange value, as a quantitatively determined relationship, in virtue of the fact that one commodity can be exchanged for another.

— Rudolf Hiferding